Friday 23 September 2022 07:47 PM 'She was 12 and I was 30': Biden tells women in crowd at teacher's union speech trends now
President Joe Biden started a Democratic National Committee speech with a teachers union on Friday with eye-opening remarks.
Pointing to a member of the crowd at the National Education Association, he said: 'You gotta say hi to me. We go back a long way. She was 12, I was 30.'
The audience laughed before he said: 'This woman helped me get a lot done'.
Later in the remarks he said: 'I mean this from the bottom of my heart. Those of you who know me, no one ever doubts I mean what I say, the problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.'
It was the start of speech in Washington D.C. where he attacked MAGA Republicans and called GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's 'Commitment to America' policy plan 'thin'.
The president also promised to veto a Republican abortion ban if it arrived at his desk and said the midterms are a choice between 'hope, unity, optimism' and 'division, fear, darkness'.
He celebrated gas prices being down $1.30 a gallon and re-upped his attacks on the use of assault weapons.
'What in God's name do you need an assault weapon for? It's an assault weapon designed to kill people, to defend America, to defend people.'
President Joe Biden started a Democratic National Committee speech with a teachers union on Friday with eye-opening remarks. Pointing to a member of the crowd at the National Education Association, he said: 'You gotta say hi to me. We go back a long way. She was 12, I was 30'
'After opposing and obstructing everything we tried to do to stop progress for the last two years, the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy went to Pennsylvania and unveiled what he calls a "Commitment to America,"' Biden said. 'That's a thin series of policy goals with limited amount of detail that he says Republicans are going to pursue if they regain control of the Congress.'
'Over the course of nearly an hour, here are a few of the things we didn't hear,' Biden continued. 'We didn't hear him
